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OneSpan Authentication Server can be configured to monitor certain system events as they are written to the audit file. Filters must be defined to specify which events to monitor (see Filters). One or more targets must be specified to which messages are sent when the monitored event occurs (see Targets).

Click Enable System Monitoring to enable system monitoring on your OneSpan Authentication Server instance. Then use the Monitoring > Filters tab and the Monitoring > Targets tab to define your SNMP filters and targets.

Filters

You must have at least one target configured, before you can add a filter (see Targets).

In the Monitoring > Filters tab, click Add to create a new filter via the Filter Details dialog.

Table: Filter Details dialog
Field name Description
Name A free form name to identify this filter.
Target A target defined in the Targets tab.
Audit Message Types The audit message type to be monitored.

Click New to create a new filter condition. Adding filter conditions will further narrow the audit messages that are monitored.

Table: Filter Details dialog (Filter conditions)
Field name Description
Field Select a field from the drop-down list.
Condition Select a condition from the drop-down list.
Value Enter a value.

Click OK to insert the new filter.

Targets

A target defines where notifications will be sent to when a monitored event occurs. At least one target must be defined before you can add filters (see Filters). You can define as many targets as you like.

Table: System monitoring – Target settings

Field name

Description

Name

The name will be used to specify the target when configuring filters.

Type

The target type.

Possible values:

  • SNMP. An SNMP target will send notifications to an SNMP server.

  • SMS. An SMS target will send an SMS to a specified mobile number.

  • Email. An email target will send an email to a specified email address.

Email

From

The email address to use as sender.

To

The email address to send the mail to.

Subject

The email subject.

SMS

Mobile

The mobile phone number to send the SMS to.

SNMP

Host

The IP address of the SNMP host.

Message Type

The type of the SNMP Host.

Possible values:

  • INFORM. This type expects an acknowledgment and will resend the message until it gets a response.

  • TRAP. This is an SNMPv3 trap and is preferred.

  • TRAPv2c. SNMPv2c, which is also supported.

Security Name

The user name for SNMPv3, or the community name for SNMPv2c.

Authentication Type

The authentication protocol to be used. This protocol indicates whether or not messages sent or received on behalf of this user can be authenticated; and if so, which protocol to use.

Possible values:

  • None. Messages cannot be authenticated.

  • MD5

  • SHA

Secret

The secret key used by the authentication protocol for authenticating messages.

Privacy Type

The privacy protocol. This setting indicates whether messages sent on behalf of this user can be encrypted, and if so, which privacy protocol to use.

Possible values:

  • None

  • AES

  • DES

Secret

The secret key used by the privacy protocol for encrypting and decrypting messages.

The only invalid combination of authentication type and privacy type is None and None.